--- title: Fuel needs oxygen to burn, and there is no air in space, so a rocket… — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics description: Fuel needs oxygen to burn, and there is no air in space, so a rocket carries its own oxygen as well as its fuel. Who acts: Fuel, air, rocket. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fuel, air, rocket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:2 # text = Fuel needs oxygen to burn, and there is no air in space, so a rocket carries its own oxygen as well as its fuel. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 26 cc _ _ 23 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 fixed _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Fuel | oxygen | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive | Fuel *not said here* | oxygen *not said here* | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | present | no air | | | space; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location | | 4 | **carry** | present | a rocket | air's own oxygen as air's fuel | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:2`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rockets, satellites and astronauts, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/1/) - next →: [Rockets, satellites and astronauts, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/)